The Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering (PNGE) Department serves the State and the nation's fossil fuel industry by furnishing well trained engineers for its industry, specific training for its personnel, and the technology for extraction and service for its constituents. As such, the productivity of the Department is unusually high. Moreover, the superior quality of the Department as measured by its faculty, facilities, and publications and standing, is well known on both a national and an international level.
Indicative of the quality and the reputation of our program is the wealth of the Department's publications and externally funded research projects. With its state-of-the-art laboratories and internationally respected faculty, the Department helps solve many of the State and nation's unique oil and natural gas problems. Solving these problems improves the economic development.
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department at West Virginia University is a world leader in fluid flow through porous media, reservoir characterization and stimulation by computational intelligence, natural gas storage, multi-phasic flow in pipes, drilling & production engineering, and environmental remediation.
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